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PB5.31 (32bit) on Windows 98

Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 10:04 am
by bohne_68
Hallo,

Today I have been installed the latest Version 5.31 (32bit) of Purebasic on an old Notebook with Windows 98 using the normal sources from the repository. According the system requirements it should work normally.

The program itself "start's" with the message:

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Cannot Initialize Scintilla engine!
Make sure the 'sintilla.dll' is placed in the 'Compiler' subdirectory of your PureBasic setup.


Does sombody know, what is going wrong?

Thanks in advance
Thomas

Re: PB5.31 (32bit) on Windows 98

Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 10:14 am
by ts-soft
I think, the scintilla.dll doesn't support win 98, as the most new software. You should download an older version of scintilla.dll.

Re: PB5.31 (32bit) on Windows 98

Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 10:17 am
by STARGÅTE
http://www.scintilla.org/ wrote:Version 3.5.3 removes support for Windows 95, 98, and ME.
I think you have to download an older version of PB with the old IDE with the old Scintilla Gadget.
A replace of the DLL is critical.
I think PureBasic 5.24 LTS is good.

Re: PB5.31 (32bit) on Windows 98

Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 10:23 am
by ts-soft
STARGÅTE wrote:A replace of the DLL is critical.
There only some structures and constants declared, that not available, but older version should work as expected!

But you are right, older version is better to support older OS.

Re: PB5.31 (32bit) on Windows 98

Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 10:57 am
by Thunder93
PureBasic 5.31 (32 or 64bits)

In the PureBasic - Helpfile, under ' Requirements ' section. As stated:

"PureBasic will run on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 (in both 32-bit and 64-bit edition), Linux (kernel 2.2 or above) and MacOS X (10.5 or above)." :wink:

Re: PB5.31 (32bit) on Windows 98

Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 11:05 am
by ts-soft
Thunder93 wrote:PureBasic 5.31 (32 or 64bits)

In the PureBasic - Helpfile, under ' Requirements ' section. As stated:

"PureBasic will run on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 (in both 32-bit and 64-bit edition), Linux (kernel 2.2 or above) and MacOS X (10.5 or above)." :wink:
But i have only the german help :mrgreen:
German Help wrote:PureBasic läuft auf jedem Windows-System (das bedeutet: Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000 und Windows XP/7), AmigaOS Classic (3.0 oder höher), Linux (Kernel 2.2 oder höher) und MacOS X (10.2 (Jaguar) oder höher).

Re: PB5.31 (32bit) on Windows 98

Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 11:11 am
by Thunder93
:lol: Favouritism! We know where the German packages falls now! Don't feel bad, I know that French packages falls before English. :twisted:

Re: PB5.31 (32bit) on Windows 98

Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 11:43 am
by bohne_68
Hallo everybody,

thanks for your help. The version 5.24 LTS runs on my old mashine.
I'm also using the the german help/documentation ... my be, it's time for an update ;-)

Regards
Thomas

Re: PB5.31 (32bit) on Windows 98

Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 7:31 pm
by VB6_to_PBx
bohne_68 wrote:Hallo everybody,

thanks for your help. The version 5.24 LTS runs on my old mashine.
I'm also using the the german help/documentation ... my be, it's time for an update ;-)

Regards
Thomas

Like you , PureBasic version 5.24 LTS is the highest version i could Run on my old WIN-98 Computer

http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... 33#p461633

Re: PB5.31 (32bit) on Windows 98

Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2015 12:00 pm
by bohne_68
VB6_to_PBx wrote:Like you , PureBasic version 5.24 LTS is the highest version i could Run on my old WIN-98 Computer

http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... 33#p461633
The compiler of version 5.31 runs on Win98 (command line) too.

Re: PB5.31 (32bit) on Windows 98

Posted: Fri May 22, 2015 11:03 am
by IdeasVacuum
That blog was written in May 22, 2009 :shock:

Clearly, it refers to a much older (6 years) version of PureBasic. If you are a paid-up customer, you have access to most of the earlier versions via your account.

Re: PB5.31 (32bit) on Windows 98

Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 1:35 pm
by Fred
Yes, Win98 isn't supported anymore, the minimum requierements for Windows is Win XP.

Re: PB5.31 (32bit) on Windows 98

Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2015 11:49 am
by Dude
Fred wrote:Yes, Win98 isn't supported anymore, the minimum requierements for Windows is Win XP.
It still says "Windows 9x/ME" on www.purebasic.com/introduction_windows.php though. ;)

Re: PB5.31 (32bit) on Windows 98

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 8:41 pm
by heartbone